--Graduated from Southwest Texas State Teachers College (1930).
--High school teacher (1930-31).
--Legislative assistant to U.S. Representative Richard M. Kleberg, Democrat of Texas (1932-35).
--State director of National Youth Administration (1935-37).
--U.S. House of Representatives from Texas (1937-48).
--Unsuccessful campaign for U.S. Senate from Texas (1941).
--Served in the Naval Reserve while also a Congressman during World War II.
--U.S. Senate from Texas (1949-61).
--Senate Minority Whip (1951-53).
--Senate Minority Leader (1953-55).
--Senate Majority Leader (1955-61).
--Campaigned unsuccessfully for the Democrat nomination for President (1960).
--Vice President of the United States (1961-63).
--President of the United States (1963-69).
--The eighth Vice President to be elevated to the Presidency because of the death of a President.
--Declined to run for re-election in 1968, a decision influenced by national divisions over the Vietnam War.
--Retired to his ranch.

--Graduated from a six-month course at the Denver College of Pharmacy (1933).
--Pharmacist (1933-37).
--Graduated from the University of Minnesota (1939).
--Professor of Political Science, University of Louisiana (1939-40).
--Mayor of Minneapolis, MN (1945-48).
--U.S. Senate from Minnesota (1949-64).
--Senate Majority Whip (1961-64).
--Vice President of the United States (1965-69).
--Unsuccessful campaign as Democrat nominee for President in 1968.
--Defeated by former Vice President Richard M. Nixon in the 1968 election for President.
--U.S. Senate from Minnesota (1971-78).
--Died while serving as Senator.

--Studied chemistry at Johns Hopkins University (1937).
--Served as a Company Commander with the Tenth Armored Division in World War II (1942-46).
--Graduated from University of Maryland law school (1947).
--Admitted to the Maryland bar (1947).
--Chairman of the Baltimore County Board of Zoning Appeals (1958-61).
--Unsuccessful candidate for Baltimore County Circuit Judge (1960).
--Baltimore County Executive (1962-66).
--Governor of Maryland (1967-69).
--Vice President of the United States (1969-73).
--The second of two Vice Presidents to resign that office--the other was Calhoun--he did so in the face of charges of corruption while serving as Governor of Maryland.
--Subsequent to his resignation, he pleaded no contest to charges of income tax evasion in U.S. District Court, Baltimore, MD, and received three years of probation.
--Wrote a novel and a memoir and became an international business consultant after leaving office.